Maureen Connor

Not all cancer is hereditary, but genetic experts are beginning to see a pattern in some cancers. There are some inherited factors or genes that contribute to the development of certain cancers, such as breast, ovarian and colorectal.Everyone has two copies of each gene, one from each parent. Each cell contains these copies, which during [...]

Due to progress in medical and biotechnological studies in the recent years scientists have focused on tumors not only within macroscopic or pharmacological perspectives, but also within molecular and cytogenic ones. Molecular epidemiology, a new area of medical knowledge has been singled out. It is currently oriented at the search for biomedical markers which not [...]